WPMU or Buddy Press is really slow

I’m not sure what part of the system is slow but I get the worst loading times sometiems it’s ridiculous. The funny thing is I’m on a dedicated server so there’s no reason for the site to ever lag the way it does sometimes.

It’s normally when visiting a blog or a blog article the loading time is about 7 – 12 seconds.

1). Ditch the Get Satisfaction button and link to them. That code for their widget is terrible AND it will definitely slow down your site. I think you should also think about the other social bookmark widget too. I would also add that there are time when the Facebook Fan widget loads really slowly. Better yet just take all of those off then see if your site loads faster. Bottom line keep the JavaScript widgets to a minimum.

2). Add this to the top of your .htaccess file;

AddType x-mapp-php5 .php

AddHandler x-mapp-php5 .php

3). If 2 worked add this to the top of your header.php

?php

ini_set(‘zlib.output_compression’, ‘On’);

ini_set(‘zlib.output_compression_level’, ‘1’);

?

(of course ad the <> )

Try all three of those things and see how much faster you are loading… Andrea is right next time add a link to your site if you want help.

I have an inexpensive dedicated box at http://iweb.com/ with… I think 2 GB of RAM and a 3GHz Athlon CPU… and even without eAccelerator installed or zlib enabled at the moment… BP+WPMU screams. So… as they say… YMMV.